Lets Hold Out News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

As chief of staff is important here. they are saying, look, mr. president, you have to remember, you care about x, y, and z. you can't forget all of that together. let's hold out. the more we hold out -- by the way, the more there is a split between the president and his hardline staff, maybe he gets a better deal in the end. democrats are already moving on this idea of giving more wall funding in order to take care of the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> what are the optics of the president giving the state of the union address s. assume this doesn't get sorted. with the government potentially still shut do...

President saying they're trying to shut down the trump economy. one thing we don't see, though, in the tweet from the press secretary, don, is any mention of the republicans who also voted against this plan. the republicans, including senator lindsey graham and a few others, who also do not believe this is the way that business should be conducted in washington here. but we are getting a sense, as phil was saying, you know, to look for those signs from this president, we are getting a sense at least from his advisers what they're going to do. go after the democrats. but when the sun comes up h...

Release a tweet. we know that he does at any time, whenever he wants to, and there could be a paper statement. but we will not hear from the president tonight in person. salena zito, i want to bring you back in here because we're following this closely. people who are tuned in, zoned in, really interested in politics following this closely. i think many americans maybe more so following because they're concerned about their government being shut down. how much do you think -- how closely do you think the average person, especially republican and trump supporter, how closely are they paying att...

Yeah, that's how we got here in the first place. >> right. >> i think everyone was happily on track to avoid this, and then trump tweeting and those kinds of comments because he doesn't really understand how these things work, and he doesn't really care about how republicans look. he cares how he looks. so -- >> agreed. >> in this instance, this is what's making it so challenging. you saw mitch mcconnell say, look, let us know what you want because we don't know what you want. president, let us know, because they can't function this way if they don't know where the president stands. so that pa...

They said that he will not be speaking tonight. maybe there will be a paper statement. maybe a tweet. we don't know. but i'm sure the american people would like to know from their leader what's going on. how does he stand on this? let's bring in -- >> hey, don. >> is that scott? go ahead, scott. >> i just wanted to respond to brian real quick on the president. brian said they won't accept a three-week deal. they don't want this deal that's currently on the floor that passed the house by a big margin. the only thing they will accept according to brian is to stick a daca fix in there, whatever t...